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THE PEACE-OFFERING by THOMAS HARDY

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First Line: IT WAS BUT A LITTLE THING
Last Line: THROUGH THE MIND!

IT was but a little thing,
Yet I knew it meant to me
Ease from what had given a sting
To the very birdsinging
Latterly.

But I would not welcome it;
And for all I then declined
O the regrettings infinite
When the night-processions flit
Through the mind!



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